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Tahar Ben Jelloun

"We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world."

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"We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world."

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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."

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"Never assume you know it all. Ask questions."

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"No one can do the learning for you."

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"Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism."

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Donna Grant

"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."

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"Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity."

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Donna Grant

"Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals."

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Donna Grant

"Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads."

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"Nobody knows it all. You must keep learning."

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Donna Grant

"Never believe all that you hear. Always verify the original source of information."

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Tahar Ben Jelloun
"Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl."

Friendship

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"In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds."

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Tahar Ben Jelloun
"I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer."

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Tahar Ben Jelloun
"I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity."

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Tahar Ben Jelloun
"Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private."

Religion

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Tahar Ben Jelloun
"My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave."

Work

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Tahar Ben Jelloun
"The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge."

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Tahar Ben Jelloun
"I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents."

Language

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Tahar Ben Jelloun
"New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate."

People

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Tahar Ben Jelloun
"The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself."

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